On TV, No Bull

As Mr. Weeks notes (“New Beginnings”), this blog has recently awoken after a prolonged slumber (two words: bio statistics; if you understand that stuff you can also use the words together, and good for you). You may wonder who Mr. Weeks is. We wrote about him every now and again. Now he’s here to get [...]

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Reality TV at the Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Brew blog reports that the Baltimore Sun is now webcasting its daily 3pm front page meetings.
The idea is to open the door to reader participation so we can weigh in on the news of the day.
But apparently, the window into news-making is often ignored by people who maybe have stuff to do at [...]

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Finance Frenzy, Unpacked

A year and a half ago, as I drove from New York City to Baltimore with a dog and many boxes, I listened to Cassidy bragging, I got m’ drink and my 2 step, I’m home, I’m home, get the patron, tell ‘em that it’s on.
In retrospect, in 2007, the whole country was swaggering, [...]

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Seizing Emotional Control

The latest oddball freebie in our office lunch room (lately: oily rice, meatballs, Atkins fliers) is a four-volume video seminar on Self-Discipline and Emotional Control: How to Stay Calm and Productive Under Pressure. While I am tempted to watch given this warning (“NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH! Tom Miller uses colorful language and irreverant examples”) I have to [...]

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New From Wii: Pii Standing Up

We think this is a (brilliant) April Fool’s Joke, from ThinkGeek.com: “When we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii Brothers we were only a little surprised…
Product Features:

Video Game for Nintendo Wii Provides a Virtual Peeing [...]

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Quarterlife Crisis

My quarterlife crisis? I can’t stop watching this show. Quarterlife is from Marshall Herskovitz, the one-man show who brought our sorry middle school selves the likes of Rayanne, Jared Catalano, and Angela Chase from My So-Called Life. 1/4 Life: Part reality tv, part Facebook, part deja-vu… All online for prime time-wasting, thanks to streaming ad-free media.

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SNL’s Project Runway Spoof

I missed the Project Runway finale, but at least I caught this SNL sendup of it, from the New York Observer site where my friend Jason is blogging about the jaw-dropper of a political scandal brewing up in New York. I think he should ignore the media blitz and get on with taking back New [...]

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